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Gas prices are rising. So is public transit ridership.
26+ min ago (411+ words) Mass transit systems are seeing more riders as fuel prices rise, but experts say most Americans still have little choice but to drive....
Chevron wants a school district tax break for a data center power plant
20+ hour, 2+ min ago (268+ words) The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions in Texas, even as state lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers....
Utah's fragile desert could feel like the Sahara if America's biggest data center gets built
29+ min ago (796+ words) Plans for a celebrity-backed "hyperscale" data center in rural Utah, so massive that it would consume more than double the state's current electricity use, have generated an intense public and political backlash in a state where the motto is "industry…...
Climate Wayfinding
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (569+ words) Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site....
The surprising climate fix that Democrats and Republicans both love
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (960+ words) grist. org We hand-package the week's best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning. Democrats and Republicans agree on virtually nothing at this point, except the desperate need to build more housing in the United States. Depending on your viewpoint,…...
Nebraska wonders which is riskier: The fires it starts, or the fires it fights
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1557+ words) As the fast-moving blaze rolled toward Fire Chief Jason Schneider's district in Cozad, Nebraska, he and his crew faced a literal uphill battle. The Cottonwood Fire was tearing through the Loess Canyons, an area defined by steep slopes, narrow valleys,…...
Energy bills keep rising. These candidates in Georgia say they can help.
3+ day, 15+ min ago (762+ words) Ten candidates are vying for two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission in the May 19 primary. Early voting is already underway. Still, elections for the commission have rarely received much attention. That changed last year. Amid frustration over rising…...
Once dismissed as weeds, native plants are now flying off the shelves
3+ day, 40+ min ago (642+ words) Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site....
Alex Honnold: 'You just see how much it matters"
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (838+ words) Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site....
As tick bites surge, conspiracy theories follow
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (425+ words) Tell you what," Drew Maciel told his Instagram followers in April, I'm sick of finding dead moose." He zoomed in on a dead bull moose lying prone on the ground, running the camera over clusters of ticks nestled within every…...